Twenty Two
(Season 2, Episode 17)
“This is Miss Liz Powell. She’s a professional dancer and she’s in the hospital as a result of overwork and nervous fatigue. At this moment we have just finished walking with her in a nightmare. In a moment she’ll wake up and we’ll remain at her side. The problem here is that both Miss Powell and you will reach a point where it might be difficult to decide which is reality and which is nightmare, a problem uncommon perhaps but rather peculiar to the Twilight Zone.”
Ever experience that weird sense of deja vu when things you’ve dreamt about start happening in real life? What about nightmares? Originally based on a E. F. Benson short story called “The Bus-Conductor,” “Twenty-Two” is a sinister tale about prophetic dreams. When dancer Liz Powell is hospitalized for exhaustion, she’s plagued with nightmares in which she goes to room 22 in the hospital. She’s greeted by a nurse who says, “Room for one more, honey,” before running away screaming. Real life eerily mirrors her nightmares when she’s about to board Flight 22 and the flight attendant greets her with the same words. As she runs away from the plane screaming back into the terminal, the audience gets a shot of the plane exploding in midair. That’ll teach you to go with your gut, eh? -Bri Lockhart
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